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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

Senator Sawyer is chairman of
the senate committe on post office and
post roads, and is also member of
the committees on education and
labor, commerce, pensions and rail-
roads. Senator Spooner is chairman
of the committe on claims and also
member of the committees on Dis
trict of Columbia, privileges and
elections, and to investigate the con-
dition of the Potomac front.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

George William Curtis told the
truth last week for the first time in
three years. He said that he and the
other mugwumps did not vote for
Cleyeland because of his free trade
ideas. nor yet for his civil service
ideas and promises, bat simply be-
cause it was the only way to beat Mr.
Blaine, q man they did not like
service reform than a monkey does
for a rotten cocoanut, but to beat Mr..
Blaine, man who Mr.. Curtis cannot
control, he would vote for Mr.. Cleve-
land, the Deyil or any other man.
Such is George William Curtis.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

TO RENT-The new cottage No. 800
W 4th and Nettleton ayenue, lately
occupied by Mr.. Eva. Fifteen
choice lots in Ely's addition for sale,
for two hundred dollars and upwards.
JAS. 5. Richie.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

The tobacco tax amounts to $50,
100000 annually. Remove this and
you will at the same time remove
some of the burdensome surplus we
hear so much about.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

Mrs. John Jacob Astor died in
New York last Monday. She was 81
years of age.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

Higgins says he is going to resign.
Bully for Higgins.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

The bum element of Sioux CITY
held a jubilee oyer the result of the
Arensdorf trial, and the attorneys.
Argo and Erwin, who defended the
man were presented viii gold headed
canes. Arensdorf, the man whom
everybody believes shot Haddock, was
the lion of the evening. Such is the
law decisions that breed mob violence.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

The Rep. Natl. Con. meets al
Chicago, June 10Th.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

Who'll be the next to follow Hig
gins?
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

The TINES has been duly entered at the Post
Office Sroe Of, Via. Us second class matter.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

The President thinks the tax on
tobacco ought to remain, but since
the Democratic members of congress
have heard from Mr.. Blaine, they
have been seized with desire to
place tobacco on the free list. The
Democratic flock does not seem to
have much respect for its shepherd.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

The following letters were remain
ing uncalled for at the close of bust
ness Dec. 10th, and unless called for
within the next 80 days they will be
sent to the dead letter office.
King 5. Butler, Miss Sarah Camp
bell, Mrs John Foss, X. w. Lewis,
l.. S. Larsen. Eugene Lachance, Mr..
McCardle. Mr.. Albert Mayo, Mr..
Martin Nautin, Mr.. Henry Poole.
E. d. Titus, Grand Seey. n. l.. of II.
Esq, DR.. Edward Dennis Titus,
Grand Secy. \. l.. of H., Thomas Pow,
Mr.. Hugh Wilson. l.s
JOHN a. BARDoN. p. NJ.
New YORK, Dec. 12.-Henrv
George definitely decided not to be a
candidate for the presidency next
year, and not to put the labor party
into the campaign. In an interview
Saturday he declared he was not in
favor of going into a national campaign
for number of causes, but particular
ly because of the expense of nation
al campaign. He is in favor of any
party which will declare in favor o.
free trade.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

ing a profitable industry for the
American farmer. Being asked if he
thought the presidents recommends
tions if carried out would increase our
export trade, he replied, Possibly in
some few articles of peculiar construc-
ton it might, but it would increase
our import trade ten fold as much in
the great staple fabrics, in WOODEN and
goods, in iron. in steel, in all the
thousands and one shape in which
they are wrought. How are we to
export staple. fabrics to the markets
of Europe unless we make them
cheaper than they do in Europe, aud
how are we TO manufacture them
cheaper than they do in Europe I'M
less we get cheaper labor than they
have in Europe2"
Then yon think that
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17
AN ORDINAN

o leo of he County R"ard Of Douglas Conn.,
ty, Wisconsin, 4r adiptlrlod snnual nrc'- :
Tag held on the 10th day Of November. 1857.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17
THEY CANNOT DO ANYTHING

THEY CANNOT DO ANYTHING
without protection and even progress
so vast as some of those states made
will be checked if the presidents mes
sage is enacted into law. Their SEN
ators and representatives can prevent
it, but they are so used to fol any
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-12-17

SUBJECT OF NOTIFICATIONS
by the late Samuel J. TiIden in 1885,
| am amazed that no attention has
been paid to the subject by the Dem
ocratic administration. Never before
in the history of the world has any
government allowed great cities on
the seaboard, like Philadelphia, New
York, Boston, Baltimore. New Or
leans and San Francisco, to remain
defenceless.
While Mr. Cleveland would repeal
the duty on wool and wooden goods,
Mr.. Blaine would protect and foster
the wool trade and make sheep rails
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-26
MIR Dwyer as assistant could have gone

Mr.. Dwyer as assistant could have gone
ON with It II he so desired Ia short, MI
Dryer as assistant has every right that Mr'
Reed as supervisor has, except 10 partici'
nate I'm the deliberations Of the town board
of auditors and 10 issue orders for those
who are town charges-orders for grocer
les coal, and such necessarios as the super
visor Is empowered TO give the town poor
The supervisor only can issue such orders,
the assistant having no right TO do 50, under
a provision of the board, Upon the board
the assistant supervisor has every right that
the supervisor has. He Is just as potential
for good, and If Mr.. Dryers desire Is
sincere, TO simply promote the public good
he would be as willing 10 serve as assistant
as he Is anxious to serve as supervisor.
His present attitude Is one that places
him Ia an embarrassing position before the
public. In the eye of the puDlic he Is not
sincere Ia the reason given for his wish TO
occupy Mr. Reeds place. There Is back
OF THIS reason sOhlt otileIi anu 'ho' otA'i ."
most likely to be found In the fact that In
the course OF a year the supervisor OF w
tawa, through the power delegated to him
and not delegated 10 the assistant, Issues to
the poor, for groceries and other necessl'
ties, orders amounting in value to good
many hundreds of dollars A supervisor
who conducts grocery store is very likely
TO fill the orders which be issues and,
though II is all Legitimate enough, 1t is a
little rough on the other grocers.
Mr. Dwysr conducts gracery store, and
this fact, coupled with the further one that
in respect to orders the supervisor has all
the power and the assistant none at all, fur
nishes a more reasonable solution Of his
candidacy for the first place and his unwil
! lingness 10 accent the second, than the one
given by Mr.. Rose, Mr.. Zwanzlg and DIR
| LeROy.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-26
THE suPERVISORsHIP AGAIN.

The FREE TRADER, exercising without
fee or hope of reward, Its right to support
the candidacy Of John +. Reed as against
that OF William j. Dryer for the position
of supervisor of the township of Ottawa
at the easuing election, has been decried
by the Ottawa Journal, the La Sale county
Herold AMI the Streator IndepeHdent7 Times,
three eminantly high. toned formulators of
public opinion, edited by three political
purists-Lester A. Rose, Carl Zwanzlg and
David Leltoy--as being the organ of ring
sters and corruptionists. Seconding the
efforts Of these gentlemen is the distin.
eu;shed statesman from Earl, who, not con,
tent with representing the people of Earl,
persists In spreading his genius over the
whole of La Sale county, and attempting
20 dictate who shall lie elected nthis town
and who shall be defeated In that.
The FREE TRADER can but repeat that
II believes Mr.. Reed ought TO be elected,
and that the best interests of the town will
be subserved by his retention in his pres
ent position.
Mr.. Dryer does not give satisfactory
explanation of his candidacy by saying he
desires to pursue the investigation, which.
by the way, has come TO an end, as far IS
the committee of which he was member
is concerned. Surprising the investigation
should again be taken up by the board.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-26
HERE'S A PRETTY MESS.

The investigation committees report on
county officers accounts was presented TO
the Board this week. II isn't pleasant
reading, by any means, now the facts are
out, and the truth, as the committee view
1t, Is known. The surprising thing is that
all this could have happened, with Board
of 40 odd members calmly sitting in delib-
Grafton over these identical accounts twice
year during all the time these Irregular.
ties were going on.
But the spectacle In this county is not
one peculiar to La Sale county. In Cook
county a similar scene has been enacted
and promises to end with a red fire tab
leau showing the boodlers on their way to
Joliet In McDonough and in Vermillion
counties invest eating committees have
shown their principals cases almost eX
actly identical with those exhibited to the
tax payers of La Sale county.
In McDonough county political enmity
induced the republicans TO attack the
county clerk, and found his accounts out Of
balance by 81 800, Then the democrats re.
taliated, finding the five sherifTs next past
had retired from office short in sums rang.
ing from $3.50 to 81 $50 each. In Vermil-
lion county the retiring sheriff is reported
short by the committee to the amount OF
$2,Sl2.
In both these cases the sheritfs have i'm
proved their opportunities 20 run livery
stables for which the county paid hand
some profit to the owner. The same tao
tics employed by Sheriff Milligan to earn
money from his horse flesh were employed
in Vermillon and McDonough counties,
with apparently equal success. The snap
of boarding house run at $3.50 per head
all expenses, save provisions, paid, and no
bad debts to collect, with an addendum of
a repair tailor-shop, materials found, does
not, however, appear to have fallen to the
lot of the perspiring sheritfs at Danville or
Macomb, but In both those cases, as in
this county, all fees received from the
State for conveyance Of prisoners to the
penitentiary and reform school were peck
eted by the sheriifs as Prerequisites" be
lieving they were entitled to it indepen-
dent of their salaries.
Here, there appears, therefore, a conflict
of opinion on the question whether those
fees belong to the sheriff or the county
which pays for his time while he earns
them. The affirmative of the question is
held by sheriffs generally, while lawyers
as rule hold that they belong to the &C
count of gross earnings of the office, and
as such must be reported TO the county in
the semi annual statement.
However, that will be settled hereafter.
All we wish TO remark is that our friends
of the "cellar organ" and those others who
are endeavoring to gloriiy themselves in
the midst of this mess are but following in
the tracks that other counties have beaten;
and that La Sale county cant lay claims
10 the possession of splendid sensation
peculiarly her own no matter how loudly
the music plays or brilliant the colored
lights or how flatteringly large the bill of
expense!
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-26
TIE lkg EsTlaATING CoEMITTEE REPOR

TIE. lkg EsTlGATING C0EMITTEE REPORTS
The Committee of the Board of Super
visors, who had been engaged ION and OIL "
for the last nine months III overhauling the
various county offices, or Thursday sub
mit,ed TO the Board u report Of their doings
and discoveries up to date. The report,
though decidedly sensationgi In style and
make up, reveals deplorable condition of
affairs In some of the county offices. as
we'll as n most reckless and careless system
of supervision and management on the
part of the Board of Supervisors. Care
lessness and reCsInessness la the keeping
of books and records allowance Of eXtrav-
agant aud shameless charges against the
county, and persistent and systematic un-
lawful appropriation of fees belonging to
the county-abues like these, masy of
them, according t. the representation of
the committee, open and glaring, areSlown
10 nave been practice9 for years, yet have
gone unchallenged and unbroken by those
whom the law made the especial guardians
of the peoples interests. Indeed, severe
as the arragnment Is of some of the
county officers, the heaviest Censure of the
report whether so intended or not, fall on
tie Supervisors themselves.
The Probate Clerks Office Is shown to
have been characterized, MOI only during
the term of the late incumbent, but OF his
predecessor, by not only singularly care
less and slovenly style of book -keeping and
constant Illegal appropriation OF fees, but
what is more serious on the part q the late
incumbent, at least, by repeated inten-
tional Justification of the record. But how,
with such jumbied. mixed up, and tanper-
ed-with books and records the committee
were able to figure up the Bartels defaica
ton at precisely SlH3037 is one of the
things that are hard to find out.
The Committee give no less fearful
than comical array of charges, over. charges,
extortions and populations by the late
Sheriff; but except one bill of 81 ,49G56,
which seems TO have been paid twice, there
Is apparently not one Of that sensational ar.
ray of items that the Supervisors are not as
censurable for allowing as the Sheriff was
for charging.
In regard to the Treasures Office the
Committee give abundant evidence of
crude and haphazard work. Take, for in
stance, the charge Of appropriating double
pay for printers fees They say, as an ex.
ample, that In 1885 the fees for printing
the delinquent list amounted to 1927, but
that the Treasurer actually collected of these
fees but $3.50 80, and therefore made the
county pay him S74.40, to make up the
amount lie had paid the printer. OF course
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-26
From Waltham.
expense!

WALTuAM, March %, lSS7.-The roads
are in very fine travelling condition, and We
are having very pleasant weather at pres
ent.
The farmers are all busy preparing for
their spring work.
David Gamble is seen going westward
quite frequently of late.
A La Sale policeman was seen In this
neighborhood on Sunday last,
Jimmie Allen is down with the measles,
Royal Wilson was kicked on the ankle
by his driving horse one day last week at
Mendoza. AS he went in to hitch him up
he told him to get over, and as he did not,
he gave him Kick and the horse kicked
him In return. Now he goes on crutches.
Your correspondent and many others are
much pleased 10 hear that Miss Josie
Heating has accepted the position as
teacher In district No for a term of nine
months. Her school will begin the first
Monday in April, and we are certain she
will give as good satisfaction with the
school IN the future as she did In the past.
RANGER.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-26

On Tuesday morning the sun having cross
ed the spring line. fair weather covered all
outdoors, and some of it got into the super
visors room, consequently the members
came up in a rather smiling disposition.
The assessor of Streator having by error as
scssed II. Muller 81 $50, for property worth
1850 the board knocked off the extra 81
600. Franklin o. Reed, of Troy Grove, hsv-
ing enlisted with the idea of getting besides
a lot of glory. $500 bounty offered by Ia
Sale county, in 1863, and not having got the
money wants it. Referred.
Norton offered q resolution reciting that
d" 1t is believed so cents per day is too much
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-07
The Presldent,. Mosher-in-Law.

Washington Letter Boston Transcript.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland spend their
time between Oak View and the White House.
So does Mrs. Folsom. Has il ever occurred to
any body what q very trying and difficult posi-
that of mothern-law to tine President isg 1t Is
said, and is most likely true that Mrs. Folsom
could have married Mr.. Cleveland herself
when he Mayor of Buffalo. The story,
which comes pretty straight. is that it was sng
gested to Mr.. Cleveland. he being of marriages.
BILE age, and being thrown necessarily much
with Mrs. Folsom executor of her husbands
estate and guardian Of her child. that match
with his friends widow would be eminently suit
able. Mr. Cleveland assen ted to the eternal fit
ness of the thing and authorized friend TO
sound Mrs Folsom. But Mrs. Folsom declined
to entertain the proposition. ANY way, she and
her presidential son-in-law the best OF
friends. albeit. when driving in the Presidents
carriage with the Clsvelands on the back seat,
Mrs. Folsom sits the front seat like the
maid. This is inevitable if moro than one lady
drives with the President. as it would be a great
breach of propriety for him to sit with his back
to the horses. But the fact is the President
ought never to drive with but one lady at
time. President Arther never did, and for
true social tact and perfect behavior
ever in the White House surpassed Chester
Allan Arther
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-07
TO-MORROW,s ELECTIONS.

Elections will take place in several States
tomorrow. The principal interest will center
on New York and Ohio, in each of which
States there has been very hot campaign.
The Democrats hope to carry New York and
considerably reduce the Republican majority
in Ohio, while the Republicans are quite
hopeful of carrying the former and confident
of holding their ground in the latter. We be-
lieve their hope in both States to be well found
ed. A point of special interest in
these elections is the attitude of the
administration. Mr.. Cleveland evidently
realizes that the elections will have de-
cisive influence on his presidential prospects.
In New York city, where the canvass has
been almost unprecedentedly bitter, and
where the issue is sharply defined
between honesty and corruption in
city affairs, the President has openly allied
himself with the latter. He stands shoulder
to shoulder with the roughs and toughs the
bosses and boodlers, the rabble and the ring,
in support of the machine candidate. He has
not only made large personal contribution,
Fellows, the Doodle candidate, and to Tam
many Hall, pledging himself openly and I'M
reservedly to the ring ticket His conduct in
this regard has been in fragrant disregard of
all his civil-service reform professions, and in
open defiance of decent public opinion. Worse
even than this. he is reported to have con-
tributed So, 900 to the campaign fund in Ohio
to aid in defeating Governor Foraker. This,
of course, is largely personal spite against
Foraker, and retaliation for his course in the
rebel flag business, but it is not likely to prove
a paying investment. Cleveland has been
doing all in his power to defeat Foraker, or at
least to reduce his majority, and his rnalig
nant work has cropped out repeatedly in the
Ohio campaign; but his contribution of money
is the most unblushing act of all. No Presi-
dent has ever before so openly thrown himself
into local politics and descended to the arts of
the low politician to advance his own inter-
ests. It stamps Grover Cleveland for what he
is-a coarse grained fraud, ambitious, malig-
nant and self-seeking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-07
Anarchy in the Future.

Salt Lake Tribune.
There is only one way to make successful
warfare upon these enemies of society, and that
is to make them feel the only thing they really
dread: that is physical suffering. Could the
Chicago police have raided the meetings of these
men in Chicago. and when any one OF them pro-
posed violence have seized him; had city court
put him trial next day. and. If convicted.
ordered that the punishment should be forty
stripes on the bare back; by the time half
dozen had suffered, there would have
more Anarchist meetings, no street parades with
black and red flags; no threateniDgs of whole
sale murder and pillage, and bombs would
have been thrown. This was not done, because
the courts held back and declared that such
thing would be an abrideement of free speech;
that an overt act must be committed before the
machinery of the law could be set in mo ton.
When the shock shall finally come. and enough
lives shall be lost, the codes will be rewritten.
and 1t will be stated that utterances which
threaten human life and the government itself
are such abuse of free speech shall in stify
immediate interference. and that the punish
ment shall be commensurate with the serious
ness Of the crimes proposed. But before this
can be accomplished, some more valuable lives
will have to be lost. and for the struggle the
good men of the country should prepare them
selves, for it certainly is coming.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-07

In cleaning out the cells of the convicted
Anarchists in the Chicago JAIL yesterday, a
box of gas-pipe dynamite bombs was found
secreted in the cell of Lingg, the bomb
maker. What the purpose of these bombs
was any conjecture. If the worst
came to the worst, this holy apostle OF
mankind, this martyr" to great prin-
ciple, this misguided enthusiast" was
ready to repeat the Haymarket massacre,
with added horrors and possibly still greater
death and destruction. In view of yester-
days revelations in Chicago it will be in
order for new impetus to be given to the
disgraceful orgie now going among senti-
mentalists and towards.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-07

forehead. and luzuriant growth of a rich,
warm auburn-hued hair, strongly suggestive
of the hirsute head covering of Mrs. Langtrv,
are among the physical attractions of this
remarkable prisoner"
And this rot is wired from Chicago. and
printed in a paper of wide circulation. It's
ridiculous aspect does not prevent it from
being contemplate. 1t were bad enough for
man in possession of his senses to give ex-
preston to such rubbish under any circum-
stances but to gush in that way over a con-
demned criminal is infamous. By all
accounts Lingg is the most dangerous and
blood thirsty of all the condemned men. He
deserves the treatment accorded to mad dog.
This attempt to invest him with supernatural
beauty and extraordinary attractions is simply
an apology for crime. Perhaps the Herald
correspondent looked through Anarchist
spectacles.